High quality music tracks available for download. Contains over 33,000 tracks (with 2-3 cut-downs for each track) for a total of 100,000 music tracks. It has plenty of genres, including hip-hop, classical/orchestral, pop, rock, dance, dramedy, world music, film scores and more!

More than 350,000 sound effects and music clips available for preview and download for Ringling students, faculty, and staff. If you have problems using Sound Ideas, please email research@ringling.edu.

Over 17,700 high quality music tracks to download. There are many genres, including Jazz, Rock, Classical, New Age, Oldies, Country, New Age, Retro, etc. You can search by musical styles, moods, geography, well-known tracks, tracks that sound like (ex: sounds like Red Hot Chili Peppers) and by instrument.

Search more than a thousand free sound effects. Alan McKinney of McKinney Sound asked professional sound companies and individuals around the world to contribute sound effects for everyone to use for free.

There are some limitations to how you can use the sound effects - read those limitations and learn how to credit the effects here.

Contains recordings of public domain music (the majority of the sound recordings are classical).

All materials are in the public domain.

Sound | Music and Sound Effects CDs in the Library's Collection

The Library has a large collection of background music, music tracks and sound effects that are ONLY available on CD. You can use the lists below to browse the tracks and effects that are available. These lists do not include the following collections (you'll need to browse them in the Library):

Loops for Acid CD title list (PDF)Index to sound tracks in the CD collection. Review the track list PDF to see if there is anything interesting to you and ask for that CD at the Library's Circulation Desk.